Cheaper, "better", faster is actually doing us quite a bit of harm in the food industry. Such as foods that are meant to look pretty but have poor flavor & nutritional value, food borne illnesses, over-consumption of unhealthy foods & factory farm pollution.

And there's the benefit of hyper cheap labor, it leaves resources available to get the avocado just right.

Not really. If the idea is to source things as cheaply as possible to get the most profit then focus is on higher yield crops, not higher quality. So ultra cheap labor + ultra high yield = more profit. It does not = better product.